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Alerts - Suriname

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Suriname

Human Rights Watch calls on national assembly to revoke amnesty legislation

The National Assembly of Suriname amended an existing amnesty law to give immunity to those who were on trial for the alleged abduction and murder of 15 prominent political opponents, including journalists, lawyers, and a trade union leader, in December 1982.

Suriname

Parliament urged to reject amnesty that would include murders of five journalists

“The traumas of the past are perpetuated by impunity, which by definition runs counter to the rule of law and the expression of fundamental human rights,” said RSF.

Suriname

Desi Bouterse's installation as president must not mean impunity for past murders of journalists, RSF says

Sentenced to 11 years in prison in absentia in the Netherlands in 1999 on a charge of drug trafficking, Bouterse could still get a 20-year jail sentence in Surinam if convicted of the Fort Zeelandia massacre.

Suriname

Journalist threatened after reporting on cocaine missing from police vault

Ivan Cairo received a threatening phone call after his newspaper published several articles on the disappearance of more than 90 kg of cocaine from a police department vault.

Suriname

TV programme withdrawn at vice-president's behest; RSF condemns act of "censorship"

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a decision by the state-owned Surinam Television Foundation (STVS) to cancel its "Surinam Today" discussion programme on 10 May 2007 under direct pressure from Vice-President Ram Sardjoe. The offending programme was about China-Taiwan relations.

Suriname

Dutch journalist Armand Snijders abducted

Suriname

Photographer Edward Troon abducted